As speakers we all know that if we add humor to our speech, we can get  our audience to laugh. 

With a little luck this means that they are not  sleeping and we’ll be able to keep their attention. Something that we  probably don’t spend enough time thinking about is the simple fact that when our audience is laughing, they are actually paying attention to what we are saying and ultimately because of the importance of public speaking this is what every speaker wants to have happen. However, the adding of humor to a speech can be a tricky thing to do.  There are a number of different things that we have to be able to take  into account in order to get this right. 

Do you feel that you know what  it would take to make your next speech funny?